u/alfisamsa

Hello everyone,
I have some points in favor of the question in the title, but I still have some doubts which I ask you to answer please.

1. the lower the hours, the more motivation and productivity. I believe that you can get more work and higher quality work done when working less as you have more free time and you do not feel like youre suffocating in your job.
2. the reasons why working hours are so long is because companies want to create more and more profit, thus relying on workers working more than they're paid.
3. producing enough entertainment for everyone, food for everyone, clothes for everyone, food for everyone, building infrastructure and so on doesn't actually require that much (in comparing). However, there are many useless jobs that are only existent to create profit and/or exclusive to a capitalist society. Think of all the jobs related to money (which would not exist in a communist economy) and so on

now to my skeptical thoughts:
wouldn't certain jobs that require long working hours that are not producing anything or accumulating profit, like teachers working 30+ hours a week, police, fire brigade, nurses,… still have these highly time consuming tasks?
How would it exactly work?
Please feel free to give me more insight on this topic as I would like to discuss this topic with my dad.

Have a great day!

Hello everybody,

as far to my knowledge, Syndicalists want to replace the state with labor unions consisting of works who control the means of production, but isn't socialism also trying to seize the means of production so the working class owns it.
So my question is, are they as similar as I believe them to be (workers owning the means of production) or am I missing something.
I also heard that Syndicalism can be both right and left-wing, how so? Isn't seizing the means of production from the owning class inherently left?

Please educate me on this topic if you know any more.

Have a great day!

I am really interested in how the basque originated and it's history. Especially considering the rule of ETA and how theyre viewed among basques.
Do you have any kind of books or anything to learn more?
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So to be clear, I want to analyze and explain the current state of Austria.

While right-wing parties remain in power, the communist party is getting more and more popular. For instance, in the second biggest city (Graz) they're even the strongest party.
Furthermore, the second most popular party in all of Austria, SPÖ (socialdemocratic party of austria) has some socialist views, even being called the socialist party of austria up until a few years ago.

Now, to my question, would it be possible for socialism to be democratically implemented in Austria, technically, or would they get shut down once they rise to power and they only exist to give the illusion of an alternative and democracy?

Have a great day!